Device for hitching animals



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C. A. HUNT.

DEVICE FOR HITGHING ANIMALS. No. 398,965. Patented Mar. 5, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EErcE.

CHARLES A. HUNT, OF FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

DEVICE FOR HITCHNG ANIMALS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,965, dated March 5, 1889.

Application tiled November 30, 1888. Serial Nov 292,219` (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, CHARLES A. HUNT, of Fall River, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Hitching Animals; and I do hereby declare that the followingspecifica-tion, taken in connection with the drawings making a part of the saine, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Figurel is a view of a horses head with bridle, showing adjustment of my device and hitehing-rope secured to post. Fig. 2 is a view of my device, showing the construction and arrangement of the several parts.

H y invention is more particularly designed for a street or outdoor hitching device, to be used in connection with that portion of the harness termed the bridle; and it consists l in the construction and arrangement of the parts as hereinafter described.

The devices now in common use for streethitching are passed and fastened around the neck of the horse and provided with a snap attached to the hitching-rope near the neckloop, which is secured to one end of the bit.

7With hitching devices of this class, in case of a sudden start, the bit is drawn to one side C is a sleeve attached to the rope at a proper dist-ance from the end, and has a ring or eye, D, into which the snap B Works, thus forining the neck-loop.

Below the neck-loop is a ring, E, which slides upon the hitchingrope, being limited in its movement by a chain, F, which connects it with the stationary sleeve C. To the ring E two snaps, G H, are attached by a link or in any other desired way.

In adjusting my device one end is first passed around the neck and the snap B engaged with the ring D, and then the snaps G and H adjusted to the rings I .I of the hit,

after which the hitching-rope may he secured to the post or other fixed object. The chain F, while giving the ring ample play upon the rope, prevents it from sliding off or from heing carried to an inconvenient distance from the neck-loop.

It Will be seen that Whenever the horse starts forward and exerts a pressure the hitching-rope, operating through the ring E, will exert an even pull upon both sides of the hit, and that such pull will he in the direction of backing the horse.

That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

and'often with suilicient force to pull the ring A hitching-strap comprising the neck-loop,

or cross-har into the mouth beyond the ability of the horse to dislodge or clear it, which so pains or frightens hiin that he will break away. In my invention I overcome these difa loose ring connected by a chain to said loop, and snap-hooks attached to said rin g, substantially as described.

iiculties by so constructing and attaching the device that the pull upon the bit Will be exerted evenly upon both sides, and will he directly backward.

In the drawings, A is the hitching device, which is made of rope and has a snap, B, attached to one end.

C` A. H THT.

X/Titnesses:

WALTER B. VINCENT, THOMAS H. AnAMsoN. 

